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About Amrit Singh

Amrit Singh is a senior legal officer at the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative. She was formerly a staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.

Well, these photographs are out and what really remains to be seen is how the government will respond to them. Will the government take this opportunity to really do an independent investigation into why this abuse happened and who is ultimately responsible for it ?

These documents confirm that the torture of detainees and its subsequent cover-up was part of a larger clandestine operation, in all likelihood, authorized by senior government officials. Despite mounting evidence of systemic abuse authorized or endorsed from above, however, not a single high level official has thus far been brought to justice.

This document suggests that Task Force 6-26 was part of a larger, clandestine program that we think may have links with high-ranking officials, because obviously someone high up had the authority to put this program in place.

Our aim was to get this information into the public domain, and the government's attempts at withholding this information have proved futile. This is a victory for us because information to which the public is entitled has been released into the public domain. The government has fought this tooth and nail.